The 7th Annual Brattleboro Film Festival

November 2-11, 2018

The 7th Annual Brattleboro Film Festival will take place from Friday, November 2 through Sunday, November 11, 2018 at the historic Latchis Theatre in the heart of downtown Brattleboro, Vermont. We will present 15 films from the U.S. and around the world that inform, challenge, entertain and inspire, emphasizing viewpoints and characters often unseen in mainstream media. We invite you to join us!

Join us on Sunday, November 11, for Encore Screenings of Festival Favorites!

In rural Iowa, a beloved history teacher Michael Zahs uncovers century-old film reels by some of the earliest filmmakers, George Méliés, Thomas Edison, and the Lumière brothers, that had belonged to one of America's first film impresarios, William Franklin Brinton. Zahs sets out to save them from turning to dust; find their proper place; and bring the magic of early cinema to the world's oldest continuously operating movie theaters.

Many of the students who attend Bowie High School in El Paso, Texas, have to commute to school: over the bridge and across the border that separates their school from their homes in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. For many of these students, sports represent one possible route to a better life. We observe three of these students as they navigate academics and their athletic competition, while also contending with language barriers, a school in need of greater funding, and familial strife.

Halla is a choir teacher by day but an environmental warrior by night, using her bow and arrow in her attempt to keep foreign developers out of Iceland’s rural highlands. This is a real Wonder Woman who battles for justice for the world’s climate victims. Aiding her in her quest are on-screen musicians and Ukrainian folk dancers whose music is a cultural echo of the natural life Halla is sworn to protect. A wonderful blend of action, suspense and humor.

Five orphaned children from Swaziland collaborate to craft a collectivefairytale drawn from their darkest memories and brightest dreams. Their fictional character, Liyana, is brought to life in innovative animated artwork as she embarks on a perilous quest to rescue her young twin brothers. The children’s real and imagined worlds begin to converge, and they must choose what kind of story they will tell - in fiction and in their own lives. For ages 10 to adult. (Parental Guidance: thematic elements including HIV/AIDS, descriptions of abuse, situations of peril)